Karpathy LLM Wiki Search Evolves to Reduce Token Waste

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Los Techies documents that the Karpathy LLM Wiki outgrew simple file reads; agents were pulling entire files to locate single relevant sections, burning tokens on irrelevant context. The post describes the evolution of the wiki's search approach to address that retrieval inefficiency.

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Practical note on improving retrieval for LLM knowledge bases, moderately important for practitioners building efficient personal wikis and agent pipelines.

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